News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-08
"DOCTORING OLD TIME.Y
A Striking Picture-A Revival of Old
Time SimpIicities.

In one of Harper's issues is given very
fine illustration of Robertss celebrated paint
ing, known as "Doctoring Old Timeh IT
represents typical old-timer, with his bel.
lows, blowing the dust from an ancient clock.
with its cords and weights carefully secured
One of these clocks in this generation is an.
preciated only as rare relic.
The suggestive name, ''Doctoring Old
Tlme," brings to our mind another version
OF o.. the title, used for another purpose-'Old
Time Doctoring."
We learn through a reliable source, that
ens of the most enterprisng proprietary
Hssdisine firms of the country, has been for
years. investigating the formulas and medical
Preparations used in the beginning of this
century, and even before, with view of as.
pertaining why people in our great-grand-
fathers time en- joyed health and physical
vigor so seldom found in the present genera
ton. They now think they have secured the
secret or secrets. They find that the prevail
ing opinion that then existed, that mature
has remedy for every existing disorder. ),
was true, and acting under this belief orr
grandparents used the common herbs and
plants. Continual trespass upon the forest
domain has made these herbs less abundant
and has driven them further from civiiza,
ton, until they have been discarded as rene
dial agents because of the difficulty of OBJ
tanning them.
Fl. II. Warner, proprietor of Warmers
safe cure and founder of the Warner oh
servatory, Rochester, N. Y, has been press
ing Investigations in this direction, into the
annals of old family histories, until he has
secured some very valuable formulas, from
which his firm is now preparing medicines
to be sold by all druggists.
They will, we learn, be known under the
general title of warmers Log Cabin Rene
dies" Among these medicines will be a
'Sarsaparilla" for the blood and liver clog
Cabin Hops and Buchu Remedy" for the
stomach etc, "Log Cabin Cough and Con
sumption Remedy" a remedy called ''Scalp-
ine," for the hair, LOG Cabin Extract, for
internal and external use, and an old valu-
Rose Cream" Among the list is also LOG
Cabin Plaster and a LOG Cabin Liver
Pilln
From the number of remedies, it will be
seen that they do not propose to cure all
diseases with one preparation. 1t is believed
by many that with these remedies a new era
is to draw upon suffering humanity, and that
the close of the nineteenth century viii see
these roots and herbs, as compounded under
the title of Warmers Log Cabin Remedies, as
popular as they were at its beginning Al
though they come in the form of proprietary
medicine, yet they will be none the less vel
come for suffering humanity has become
tired of modem doctoring and the public has
great confidence in any remedies put up by
the firm of which H. 81. Warner is the head.
The people have become suspicious of the
effects of doctoring with poisonous drugs.
Few realize the injurious effects following the
prescriptions of many modern physicians.
These effects of poisonous drugs, already
prominent will become more pronounced in
coming generations. Therefore, we can cor
daily wish the old-fashioned new remedies
the best of success